Presenting the award for best drama series, which went to Game of Thrones, he thanked everyone for their outpouring of support since the incident.

"Last year, Jimmy Kimmel said, we'd see you here next year, Tracy Morgan," he said on stage, after receiving a rapturous applause from the audience.

Morgan thanked his doctors and "beautiful wife" (Image: Reuters)

"Thanks to my doctors and my beautiful wife, I'm here standing on my own two feet. God bless all you for your love, prayers and positive thoughts for the past 15 months. I'm honored to be here at the Emmys."

"It's been a long road back," he went on. "I suffered a traumatic brain injury that put me in a coma for eight days."

"When I finally regained consciousness, I was ecstatic to learn I wasn't the one who messed up," he joked. "Only recently I've started to feel like myself again."

Tracy's friend and fellow comedian Jimmy McNair was killed in the accident, when a Walmart truck driven by employee Kevin Roper slammed into the back of a limo containing the comedian and several others on the New Jersey Turnpike after he had finished a show.

In August, NBC announced that he would be making an appearance on the upcoming 41st season of Saturday Night Live. He hoped to attend the SNL 40th anniversary show, but was unable to go.